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Yay, finally a rundown/timestamps! Autoblog actually acknowledged that many of us don't want to listen to 2 full hours of you talking amongst yourselves.
I'll actually listen to this one again for a change.

Actually do want to listen them talk for 2 hours, that's the whole point of the podcast. What I don't like is inconsistent uploading of the podcast as of lately. Pick a damn day and stick to it. If you record on Monday, let us know you won't be uploading until Friday or whatever day. Not that hard Dan Roth.

Plug-in vehicle sales in the US were up by 84% for 2013 vs 2012, and John McElroy says "Alarm Bells"??? Sure you can look at overall market share which is still less than 1%, but with that kind of growth rate, it doesn't take long before the numbers start to become very significant.
Europe - yes overall, PEV sales are small, but in a few markets, thanks admittedly to healthy incentives, plug-in electric vehicles are doing extremely well. There's the Netherlands - they sold more plug-ins than the US in December, hitting 23.8% market share. And in Norway, the Model S has been the #1 selling car in the country (all cars, not just EVs) for two months. Overall EV market share in Norway in November and December was 11%. Sure these are smallish markets, but these are still huge numbers, and they will surely spread as more models become available.
Lastly, McElroy's logic with comparing VW diesel sales to hybrids but subtracting Toyota was weird. Why wouldn't you then compare non Toyota hybrids to non-VW diesels? What conclusion does it help you reach by looking at VW's diesels and ignoring Toyota's hybrids? What's more telling to me is the momentum that the VW group is building up behind plug-in vehicles. VW e-UP sales are strong so far, and the e-Golf looks like a very serious contender.